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Rural-Urban Divide and Election '08

The following article was published earlier this year on the website of the History News Network.A Historian Reflects on the Rural-Urban Divide and Election '08By Daniel HermanMarch, 2008Mr. Herman is an Associate Professor in...

"Negritos" celebrated as early Taiwan settlers

WUFENG VILLAGE, Taiwan (Reuters Life!) - Chinese have long been the dominant race in Taiwan, trailed by a tiny Asian aboriginal population. "Most people don't know, as this is passed on by word of mouth," said Wu Yu-ling, an...

Apples offer N.Y. a tasty history

New York trails only Washington state in U.S. apple production. Why? The answers can be traced through our history — from the way the glaciers sculpted our land and gave us a lake to the first cultivation of apples around...

The Challenges of Obama-Nation

Professor Press recommended that America rethink its commitments, streamline its activities, and not enter into new alliances which will eventually become a drain on the country- a return to the Reagan/Carter era of “staying...

HNN's Top Young Historians: This Week ... Matthew Avery Sutton

Basic Facts Teaching Position: Assistant Professor of History at College of Liberal Arts, Washington State University, 2008- Education: PhD, Department of History University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005 Major...

Please, President-Elect Obama, Reverse Bush's Muzzling of Presidential Records

On March 25, 2003, President George W. Bush issued Executive Order 13292 that delayed for years to come public access to millions of pages of documents that were scheduled for release. He claimed that “sensitive information”...

Jim Jones, the Guyana "Suicides" & Harvey Milk's Premonitions of Death

By Alex Constantine "After Milk's body was cremated, the ashes were enshrined at his prior direction with bubble bath...and several packets of Kool-Aid, a clue that Milk left behind, per the will he'd revised a week before the...

ARTHUR MILLER LECTURE ON SCIENCE AND ETHICS: Climbing Up the Slippery Slope: The History of...

Annual Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics. Ruth Schwartz Cowan is the Janice and Julian Bers Professor of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent book, Heredity and Hope:...

“Dear Food Network” (9 p.m., Food Network): Got chow worries? Ask the pros before

Published:Monday, November 17, 2008 “Dear Food Network” (9 p.m., Food Network): Got chow worries? Ask the pros before Thanksgiving. “Einstein” (9 p.m., History): For decades, to be called an “Einstein” is to be hailed as the...

Special lecture at Dravidian varsity University Roundup

Dravidian University’s Department of History, Archeology and Culture organised a special lecture on ‘Understanding historical processes in early South India’ last week. T.K. Venkata Subramanian, a distinguished scholar ...

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